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“Battles on the Home Front” is a new program created by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Sesquicentennial Committee to bring visitors to the Shenandoah Valley — specifically Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. This program highlights the historic Civil War sites in our area, and incorporates compelling stories, museums, interpretive centers, and a 2012 calendar of commemorative events, plus walking [...]

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Back in 2009, the Home Affordable Refinance Program (otherwise known as HARP) was born. This is a government-run program that allows home owners with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac loans to refinance at a lower interest rate, even if their home is way under valued. HARP recently got a face-lift. It used to base qualifications [...]

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Recently at 120 North Main Street in Bridgewater, Randy’s Do It Best Hardware held a grand opening, serving up free hot dogs and beverages, and offering many items on sale. The new hardware store has taken over where the old Dickson’s Drug Store used to be. According to the store manager, Christian Herrick, lawn and [...]

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EXCITING NEWS: The Kline May Companies are starting up a new property management company called Priority Property Management! Now Kline May customers and clients can find quality property management that provides the same attention to detail and customer service as the rest of the Kline May family of companies.

Priority Property Management will be operated by [...]

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According to our last post about the National Flood Insurance Program, the temporary extension ended yesterday. So, Congress has now passed (and the President signed) a bill reauthorizing this program prior to the program’s expiration. The Travelers Insurance Flood Team states, “The bill contains a short-term reauthorization that extends the statutory authority to issue [...]

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Harrisonburg residents have long been known to hold the view that taking care of our environment is very important. As such, many have started using rain barrels, compost bins, solar energy, electric cars, etc. Well, the leaders of Harrisonburg have taken notice, and in October, Harrisonburg Electric Commission (HEC) will be providing a charging station [...]

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Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance and the City of Harrisonburg have granted several businesses with facade enhancement grants this year. This grant program supports property improvements and has been able to stay in place, despite the state of the economy. In 2011, eight grants were awarded for a total of $20,000 in improvement funds.

These businesses will use [...]

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Fitch Ratings, a research and data analysis company headquartered in both New York and London, did some comprehensive studies on Rockingham County and gave an “AA” rating to our locale. This grade is second on the rating scale — from “AAA” to “D” — and means Rockingham County has very high credit quality. In fact, [...]

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Back in April of 2010, we reported that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was reauthorized after it had lapsed (but had been made retroactive to the lapse date). Basically, it had expired for some time, then reauthorized, and all policies written during the lapsed time were back-dated. This made all policies legitimate and nothing [...]

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For years, Bridgewater residents have been hoping for some type of cuisine other than national fast food chains and Italian. Don’t get me wrong, the Italian restaurants in Bridgewater are amazing and they serve delicious food at great prices, but as they say, “variety is the spice of life.” Enter Twisted Tortilla.

Twisted Tortilla is an [...]

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